Teaching Crip; or, What We Talk about When We Talk about Disability Pedagogy

This year disability activists and scholars have been commemorating the 25th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the most sweeping piece of legislation dealing with issues of disability in US history. Although laws mandating accommodation for people with disabilities were not new--most notably, the Individuals with Disabilities in Education Act, or IDEA, was initially passed in 1975 and significantly updated in 2004--the ADA had a kind of glamour to it. Here, Chinn talks about disability pedagogy.